Bipolar Songs

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I guess the title is fairly self explanatory. Share songs that remind you of the bipolar experience, or your experience of bipolar. I like listening to people's song recommendations as I find it cathartic, maybe others will too. I'll start with a couple.


Edguy - Sacrifice

Evanescence - What You Want

Revamp - In Sickness: Disgraced.

Jason Robert Brown - King Of The World

Relient K - Devastation And Reform

Linkin Park - Iridescent

Nirvana - Lithium

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHZ9jh7IhkU[/youtube]

The Kinks-The Destroyer
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WJ6FbcWYRU[/youtube]

Otherside-Red Hot Chilli Peppers

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn_YodiJO6k[/youtube]

Infra-red - Placebo

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fISvc-yUU1A[/youtube]

I'm not bipolar, but bipolar disorder is one of my biggest special interests. So, there are several songs out there that remind me of how I THINK mania would feel. "Happy Feet" from The Aviator makes me think of moderate euphoric ("classic") mania, before things get too out of control. Lady Gaga's "Bloody Mary" makes me think of psychotic mania with grandiose delusions of a religious nature. I like the background "whisper"-like effects in the song, because it sort of sounds like hearing hallucinatory voices. "Kryptonite" by 3 Doors Down makes me think of mixed mania or "dysphoric" mania. I think the lyric "if I go crazy, then will you still call me 'Superman'?" fits a bipolar theme very nicely.

For a condition I actually do have (OCD), a great song is "Fascinating Rhythm." The words describe obsessions very well.

I've never listened to "Lithium", but I want to hear it now! Very intriguing!

There is also a Lithium song from Evanescence:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nklvuocGCAQ[/youtube]

[quote="Raziel"][quote="glow"][quote="OddDuckNash99"]

I like the background "whisper"-like effects in the song, because it sort of sounds like hearing hallucinatory voices. "Kryptonite" by 3 Doors Down makes me think of mixed mania or "dysphoric" mania. I think the lyric "if I go crazy, then will you still call me 'Superman'?" fits a bipolar theme very nicely.

For a condition I actually do have (OCD), a great song is "Fascinating Rhythm." The words describe obsessions very well.

I've never listened to "Lithium", but I want to hear it now! Very intriguing![/quote]

yeah um, ocd is not the same as having mania . They are both different.[/quote]


OddDuckNash99 wasn't comparing them, but was just talking about disorders and songs. That's it.[/quote]

Was I speaking to you? no. I didn't think so. so why don't you go back to comparing mixed senses and hearing and leave common forum members alone?
If she wants to compare a song to every lyric compared to an illness ' in jest' maybe she needs a new forum where you and her are invited guests.

Sheesh guys, can we please not have a bipolar/OCD compare the differences and similarites, or who has it worse contest on this thread? Oddduck did not say that OCD was the same as mania. And last I checked, this was an open forum.

The original and still the best

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JoSIGGOGZQ[/youtube]

^^Paranoid is one of the best rock songs of all time. Black Sabbath is awesome.

Now for the heavy metal take on bipolar, there is Disturbed:

Down with the Sickness:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09LTT0xwdfw[/youtube]

Remember:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J2MGMXCGYQ[/youtube]

I think that Stinkfist by Tool could be interpreted as being about BPD and addiction, but it's close enough:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdDs4rrIsnk[/youtube]

What I find interesting is that the singer for Tool, Maynard James Keenan, appears incredibly aspie in some of his interviews. I know I'm not the first to notice, and he is a major recluse by celebrity standards.

Down with the sickness - Disturbed, and 'Lithium' - Evanescence are two others of mine too.

Plus I see absolutely nothing wrong with discussing OCD, bipolar, and talking about bipolar as a special interest. OddDuckNash you are more than welcome to participate in this thread and can people not make personal attacks for no reason please.

I can relate certain songs to certain types of mood episodes:


MANIA - this really captures it for me, especially the piano accompaniment (the speech, complexity, intensity, and dissonance) plus the lyrics too. Especially the sense of grandiosity, entrapment and desperation conveyed in them. That is what hypomania/mania is like for me - I become convinced I am destined to be world famous (the actual reason for this tending to vary) and feel this sense of extreme desperation to succeed combined with egotism in this weird kind of convoluted mix.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYriYGwftPc


DYSPHORIA: (mixed episode) - this is basically like hell or mental torture/intense feeling/emotional agony. Kind of like mixed rage, pain, and extreme energy plus other emotions all together. "put me out of my misery, put me out of my misery, put me out of my, put me out of my f*****g misery"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xyxtzD54rM


DEPRESSION: this varies. Sometimes I stop listening to music altogether for periods of time when depressed. Other episodes i do listen to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PWgA3PI7VQ

Unwell-Matchbox 20

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WziA88-n02k[/youtube]

Meds-Placebo

(Heck, a lot of us are really f****d if we don't take our meds =/ )

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eh0rAUwZSQ[/youtube]

Neither really mention bipolar, but I think they make it clear how a lot of us feel really.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USNKd9u85WI[/youtube]

My eyes stay shut
My mouth won't speak anymore
Feel, that's all that I do
Hear, all I have left
I pray, if it helps, in my silence
End my pain, please

Crawl into my skin
See into my hell

My heart won't love anymore
It beats the time away
Stop, that's all that I ask
Free my tortured body
Slip gracefully into my death, my salvation

Crawl into my skin
See into my hell (live without a life)
My heart won't give in
Machines keep me here (crawl into my pain)
A shade of myself
A human disgrace
Please, let me go

Tubes
The sound of machines
They talk about me
More pain, needles sting
I slide away
A white light's piercing my skull
The nurses wipe my drool
A day passes by
A perfect one to die

Crawl into my skin
See into my hell (life without a life)
My heart won't give in
Machines keep me here (crawl into my pain)
A shade of myself
A human disgrace
Please, let me go